No housewife can do without kitchen gloves in her kitchen, with which you can easily rearrange a hot pot, pan or baking sheet. Of course, for this purpose you can use various rags or towels, but why not sew the original beautiful potholders from the scraps yourself? Moreover, this does not require any special knowledge or financial costs. And cute little things created by your own hands will become not only excellent helpers in the kitchen, but also an original gift for a friend, sister or mother. In this article, we will talk about how to sew patchwork style potholders.
In fact, it is not difficult to create them, but the process itself is quite painstaking, it requires careful selection of tissues, cutting and stitching fragments.
Material selection
In order to sew tacks from shreds, you will need paper for templates, scissors for them, pieces of fabric of different colors and scissors for fabric. You should also stock up on neutral thread and sewing accessories. Typically, such products are sewn by hand, but if there is a machine, work can be accelerated.
It is worth noting that you cannot cut paper with scissors for fabric, since they will quickly become worthless, after which thin fabrics will not be cut with such ease.
It should be remembered that the tack is designed to work with hot objects, so when choosing fabrics, preference should be given to cotton dense materials and in no case to use synthetics, which can simply melt. And this applies not only to fragments for application on the front of the product. The wrong side, the edging and even the eyelet on the tack should also be made of natural fabric, so that the accessory does not become worthless the first time it is used.
For such a product, it is possible to use not only scraps of fabric remaining after sewing bed linen or towels. Worn out clothing is perfect for work.
If the fabric was specially bought in the store, then it should be washed before work, since cotton has the property of shrinking and shedding upon first contact with water.
Preparatory work
Before proceeding to the cutting of the fabric, you should develop a model of tack from shreds with all modules and color combinations, and then make patterns. On paper, they draw a sketch of the future tack from shreds in full size and duplicate it. One of them is divided into fragments: squares, rhombuses, rectangles and polygons. After the sketch with all the details is ready, it is cut, pre-numbered elements. An integral part will be needed for cutting the wrong side and for the filler.
Tissue distribution
It is clear that the patchwork product will look original only if you choose the right shades of materials for the job. It can be contrasting or tonal combinations. For example, a patchwork patch in the shape of a circle in the center may be white and darker at the edges, or vice versa. Alternately stitched dark and light elements look interesting.
A great idea is a mitt. The pattern of this product is very simple. It is enough to put your hand on a sheet of paper and circle it along the contour. If desired, the size of the template can be increased. Next, the resulting pattern is divided into fragments and cut. The mitt-mitt, the pattern of which is divided into several vertical or horizontal elements, can be single-layer or worn on the arm.
Model selection
As a rule, in order to create a little thing in patchwork technology, only basic knowledge is enough, but for beginners it is better to choose simple models. The lightest tack is considered to be tack of the correct geometric shape with a small number of fragments. It is worth noting that even with a very simple design, such a product will look original.
More experienced craftswomen can cope with tacks of unusual shapes, including a heart, a flower, a leaf, a butterfly, a snail or a cat. In fact, ideas can be just an unlimited number.
Cut fabric
So, how to sew a tack from shreds? Paper patterns are laid out on the fabric and circled around the contour with tailor's chalk or pencil. All fragments are cut out, not forgetting the seam allowances. All of them must be the same, so that in the assembly process the parts come together correctly. The wrong side can also be made out of fragments or a whole piece can be cut out of beautiful material.
For cutting the wrong side and the filler, an undivided paper template is used.
Also, a strip of fabric is cut from a single web for the manufacture of loops and the processing of the edges of the tack. It is best to use a knitted fabric made from natural fibers for this purpose. If you take a dress fabric that does not stretch, then the strip should be cut obliquely.
For example, if there is a square piece of matter to cut out an oblique inlay from it , the fabric should be cut diagonally, and then stripes should be cut along and along this cut. Only in this case, the edging will lie flat, will not puff or wrinkle. The minimum width of such a strip should be 3.5 cm.
In order to give the tack the necessary density, which protects the hostess's hands from burns, it is necessary to sew a piece of batting or synthetic winterizer inside the product.
Front assembly
In order to properly stitch all fragments of the front side, it is necessary to lay each of the fabric parts on a paper template and smooth the seam allowances inside out. After that, all the elements are combined and alternately stitched. Then each seam must be ironed carefully.
The oven mitts, photos of which are posted in this article, were collected in different ways.
Almost all such products are sewn into modules, and only then combined into a single composition. Take, for example, a round potholder, in which elements were first collected that resembled a cut pie in a finished product. For products of a square shape with quadrangular elements, the parts are first stitched into strips, and then joined.
Quite often, after creating the front part, it is duplicated with non-woven. This allows you to stabilize the fabric so that the stitched elements seem to be a single fabric.
Assembly parts
A cut-in grabber is reminiscent of a multi-layer cake: front side, synthetic winterizer or batting, wrong side. All these blanks are stacked on top of each other, and, stepping back from the edge a few millimeters, lay a basting seam. At this stage, you can make several seams along the product to quilting it.
Then, a loop is applied to the inside so that it rests on the product. Further, in the process, it is turned away. After that, a fringing strip of fabric is applied face down to the wrong side. Having departed from the edge of 0.5 cm, sew it. Then the oblique collar is bent. Turning the edges by 5 mm, smooth on the front side. Together with her turn off the loop. At the end of the work, a seam is laid along the edge of the non-sewn-in inlay, thereby masking all sections.
The rim is the final stage, which means that a new patch from the scraps is ready. With your own hands you can create a series of useful textile gizmos in the kitchen. For example, for the New Year holidays it can be potholders and towels with Christmas-themed appliqués, and by March 8, a collection of kitchen textiles with spring motifs.
Fashion accessory is a great gift idea
Patchwork tacks, the master class for the manufacture of which is presented above, can be made even by a beginner needlewoman. A little imagination and zeal, and the original kitchen accessory will be ready.
Such a cute little thing, which is easy to create on your own, will help to get rid of annoying rags once and for all, which, as practice shows, do not protect delicate hands very well from red-hot kitchen utensils. Grips, photos of which are used in this article, can be an excellent source of inspiration for every needlewoman. The right choice of fabrics and patterns will make the thing so original that it can be safely presented as a gift.